New charges admitted in Vatican funding trial

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 20 - Fresh charges have been admitted in the high-profile Vatican trial on alleged mismanagement of funds and graft, court chair Giuseppe Pignatone said Thursday.
    The additional charges concern the defendants Gianluigi Torzi, Raffaele Mincione, Enrico Craso and Fabrizio Tirabassi, with various hypotheses of active bribery and corruption, money laundering and self-laundering.
    The Court, in an order read by Pignatone after more than an hour of council chambers, rejected the defence's motions of "nullity" and "not to proceed" due to "indeterminacy" and "inadmissibility", and admitted the new charges and the new wording that the promoter of justice Alessandro Diddi had requested in the hearing of 30 March. (ANSA).